Improvement needed

[Richard Darling 0]

So ive just started the game (it was on sale), always wanted to play it and H1Z1....probably played about 3 hours in total and I believe there's a lot of work still needed in this game

 

First gameplay for 1 hour was in a built up area full of tower blocks and all I could collect was a stick and a backpack...this seemed pointless, I got bored looking in room and decided to belly flop off the roof to my death

Second gameplay about 30mins exploring woods and houses - again, lack of items to look. I only had a knife and a helmet. Could not find any food either. Boring

Third gameplay ran around, lost a lot of liquid and blacked out. When recovering a zombie attacked me and I died because I couldn't get back up

 

Ive also noticed you cant keep any of your equipment if you log off...I seen my character from the night before but lost everything when I logged in

 

 

Due to these, I feel this game is needing a bit/alot more work put into it, which is a shame since its been out for 7 years

 

Is it just me having bad luck or am I just a noob that doesn't understand?

 

 

[Homeschooliazon 87]

Yeah the big apartment buildings weirdly don't spawn any loot, don't go in them looking for stuff. Luckily the apartments are the only type of building that doesn't spawn loot. I play regularly and my characters never get deleted, unless the server gets wiped which happens on some communtiy servers. You might have joined a server with a different character database than the one that has your character on it, or someone killed you while you were logging out (your char stays on the server for 15 seconds while logging out and can be killed). it's supposed to be hard to find food and drink in this game, but it gets a lot easier when you get to know the game better, it's a good idea to play with some experienced players and watch tutorials. The further you go inland the better the loot you find.

[beavis_5000 111]

Welcome to DayZ Standalone. Where worrying about hunger/thirst is the most intensity you will get outta the game. 

Find a gun? Don't worry about being excited cause you will still need to find the magazine and ammo to go with it.

Finally find a cool gun with magazines and ammo? Congratulations you're at end game because there are only a couple of more cool guns in the game so you don't have to worry about looking to see what else is out there. 

Oh and don't worry, zombies add no intensity to the game either. Rather than avoid them or worry about them at all we actually hunt them down because 1 in every 20 will drop food or drink. 

[Robzom11 109]

3 hours ago, beavis_5000 said:

Welcome to DayZ Standalone. Where worrying about hunger/thirst is the most intensity you will get outta the game. 

Have you ever been almost run over by your stolen car in a parking lot shootout? Have you ever had to talk your way out of a bad situation? Have you even played DayZ my guy? You're literally complaining that you have to find ammo for your gun, like have you played any survival game ever? Not trying to be a dick but holy... I can see where you're coming from in regards to end game and zombies and agree i think, i guess some people are motivated more by loot while others just play for the unique experience DayZ offers, i think both are fine, but i can see how this game might be disappointing if your only drive is loot. 

[Robzom11 109]

My advice would be learn how to hunt, make a fire and cook food, I'm not about to go step by step but you can look it up.

Zeds drop food occasionally, so kill them. You also have better chances finding food inland.

Also not sure why you got a new character, it could be that you were on a different community server from the last one you played on (every community server has seperate characters).

Make sure if you play official to favorite the server you plan to play on or else you will be relocated back to the coast everytime you switch. 

If you're looking for an easier survival experience try some community servers, they are usually easier, however alot of them are laggy but there's a few that run good. (they usually also server wipe often)

DayZ is definitely in need of polishing, but it still offers something no other game really can. 

[beavis_5000 111]

15 minutes ago, Robzom11 said:

Have you ever been almost run over by your stolen car in a parking lot shootout? Have you ever had to talk your way out of a bad situation? Have you even played DayZ my guy? You're literally complaining that you have to find ammo for your gun, like have you played any survival game ever? Not trying to be a dick but holy... I can see where you're coming from in regards to end game and zombies and agree i think, i guess some people are motivated more by loot while others just play for the unique experience DayZ offers, i think both are fine, but i can see how this game might be disappointing if your only drive is loot. 

 

Well, I think due to the scarce loot and (in my opinion cheap) survival aspects, those exciting PvP situations are very few and far between. I think I have literally been shot at once since I've started playing and I've been roaming all around NW Airfield and etc. Every other PvP situation besides that were melee fights. People are too busy looking for food/drink and magazines to match their guns it seems. 

I played 7 Days to Die pretty extensively. I have countless hours on all the Arma 2 and 3 DayZ mods. Literally played the Mod since the Vanilla version was the only option to play or close to around that time. You had to worry about Zombie's in both or at least you wanted to avoid them and PvP in the standalone is super super rare compared to the Mods to the point I run around NW Airfield, Stary Sober and big cities with essentially no worries. 

Have you payed the DayZ mods?

[Robzom11 109]

23 hours ago, beavis_5000 said:

 

Well, I think due to the scarce loot and (in my opinion cheap) survival aspects, those exciting PvP situations are very few and far between. I think I have literally been shot at once since I've started playing and I've been roaming all around NW Airfield and etc. Every other PvP situation besides that were melee fights. People are too busy looking for food/drink and magazines to match their guns it seems. 

I played 7 Days to Die pretty extensively. I have countless hours on all the Arma 2 and 3 DayZ mods. Literally played the Mod since the Vanilla version was the only option to play or close to around that time. You had to worry about Zombie's in both or at least you wanted to avoid them and PvP in the standalone is super super rare compared to the Mods to the point I run around NW Airfield, Stary Sober and big cities with essentially no worries. 

Have you payed the DayZ mods?

I'm not so sure the cheap survival aspects (which i agree for the most part are barebones) have anything to do with pvp being rare, it's not that rare as you make it out to be atleast not for me and i play extremely passively, though I'm on xbox so things might be different. The scarce loot point i completely agree with, though i understand and enjoy the intention behind it, i think that it really lowers the incentive for players to travel inland as there's not much to be gained that can't be found on the coast (night vision is maybe the one thing I'll go inland for as usually i can rely on finding them) this obviously leads to less traffic around the map as i think alot of people are motivated by loot, also pvp/player interaction which it feels like there's less and less of the more inland you go. 

The zeds not being a big threat is something I agree with as well, not much more to add. 

To answer your question i have not played any of the mods, i installed the mod on my laptop when i was like 11 not knowing wtf i was doing lol, probably was a virus. Come to think of it, not many survival games here on my xbox 😞 honestly only other survival game I've played is minecraft lol so i guess I'm a hypocrite.. I'm sorry but you can't just imply that finding ammo and a gun separate is boring or somehow a bad thing for a survival game without me atleast questioning you. I think you have to admit you may have exaggerated your initial points a little.

[beavis_5000 111]

5 hours ago, Robzom11 said:

I'm not so sure the cheap survival aspects (which i agree for the most part are barebones) have anything to do with pvp being rare, it's not that rare as you make it out to be atleast not for me and i play extremely passively, though I'm on xbox so things might be different. The scarce loot point i completely agree with, though i understand and enjoy the intention behind it, i think that it really lowers the incentive for players to travel inland as there's not much to be gained that can't be found on the coast (night vision is maybe the one thing I'll go inland for as usually i can rely on finding them) this obviously leads to less traffic around the map as i think alot of people are motivated by loot, also pvp/player interaction which it feels like there's less and less of the more inland you go. 

The zeds not being a big threat is something I agree with as well, not much more to add. 

To answer your question i have not played any of the mods, i installed the mod on my laptop when i was like 11 not knowing wtf i was doing lol, probably was a virus. Come to think of it, not many survival games here on my xbox 😞 honestly only other survival game I've played is minecraft lol so i guess I'm a hypocrite.. I'm sorry but you can't just imply that finding ammo and a gun separate is boring or somehow a bad thing for a survival game without me atleast questioning you. I think you have to admit you may have exaggerated your initial points a little.

The standalone is definitely a different experience than the mod. I know they intended it that way and I actually think the game isn't bad. It's just some small things that just baffle me. 

Again with zombies... they may as well take them outta of the game and replace them with more animals we can hunt. Cause that is all zombies are there for is to kill for food drops. 

Guns again.... how do we get a whole standalone game but then get less guns? No LMG's period. 

The standalone is more like a plain survival game rather that a zombie apocalypse survival game. 

The game is decent but I can't say I am not disappointed. All it would take is some small tweaks and the game would be great. 

Then again, I fully understand that not every game is going to please everyone.